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[ktron]

lance is back in yellow, hurrah! even if thomas voeckler is absolutely adorable, we all knew it couldn't last forever...

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i saw a girl on campus today

[dap6000.livejournal.com]

and had a 5 minute conversation with her before i realized it wasn't you.

this is even worse because she was someone i know pretty well. we worked the same shift for 3 hours on fridays in the library all last semester. so i don't know why my brain told me she was you.

Re: i saw a girl on campus today

[ktron.livejournal.com]

strange! i suppose it's better than talking to a complete stranger as if you know them, though... i'm near-sighted enough to frequently wave familiarly to strangers and try to duck the puzzled stares that come back.

speaking of campus, though, do they give parking tickets on the weekends? i got stir-crazy and was tempted to drive over and wander through the library on sunday, but i didn't know if it'd get expensive.

Re: i saw a girl on campus today

[dap6000.livejournal.com]

weekends you'll generally be ok. and if you really want to cover your ass, there should be plenty of metered parking on the streets near the library.

you could even stop by the comp lab on the bottom floor and actually say hi to me this time, so that i can mistake you for brandi, achieving some kinda strange balance. ;)

Re: i saw a girl on campus today

[ktron.livejournal.com]

may just have to do that! i suppose the parking garage is probably considered proper turf for those with no real excuse to be there... last time i did have an excuse to be there on a saturday (foreign service test), they weren't collecting money. and wow, the last time i went into that computer lab was way back in the summer of '96... governor's school. that being 8 years ago now makes me feel really old.

[clear-bead.livejournal.com]

*sigh*
i love lance armstrong. i can't help it. i guess this comes from watching all those Tours when I was a kid with my babysitters. I am still probalby the only person I know who can tell you why it was so miraculous for Greg LaMonde to win the Tour de France once...let alone how many times he wound up winning.

[ktron.livejournal.com]

wow, someone else had a childhood warped by tours?!? my mother always set up vcrs to tape the middle-of-the-night coverage back before OLN... i don't think i really started paying much attention until i developed some fascination with france - so somewhere in the reign of endurain. (or however it's spelled... i never know how to spell the cyclists...)

so other than being from a country that could care less about cycling, why was lemond's win so miraculous?

but man. this year, voeckler, the french kid who had the yellow jersey for ten days up 'til today... he was such an underdog, and so cute - he looks like he's about 15 instead of 24 - that you couldn't help rooting for him to keep the jersey as long as he could. plus he's on a team called boulangere le brioche, which makes me hungry for yummy french bakery food every time i hear it. ah well, at least he gets the white jersey now.

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the first year (or maybe the second--i was young i cna't remember) Greg won, he had been in a hunting accident the year before... His brother in law, I believe, had thought he was a deer or something and shot him like 5 times. and he came back form that adversity and won. (although, being an american to win...yeah, that was special too).

and yup, my babysitters--jennifer and beth-- LOVED cycling. we'd take long bike rides every day during the summer and pretend we were on the tour.

*sigh* those were the days.